Francis II - the first husband of Mary Queen of Scots - died

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Francis II of France, heir to the French throne, and the first husband ofMary Queen of Scots, died on 5 December 1560, following an ear infection. Mary and Francis had married in 1558, when Mary was aged fifteen. Francis ascended to the French throne just a year later, after the death of his father Henry II in 1559, in a jousting accident.

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